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Higher Terrace Deposits

• Coherent formation
• Pliocene - Pleistocene

• Sedimentary facies: Fluvial
• Lithofacies: Sands, Gravels

• Thickness: 6 - 8 m
• Lower limit: Unconformity (Osaka Group)

• Distribution: Kusumoto - Shimoda, Awaji city, Hyogo pref.

• Mizuno et al. (1990) Geology of the Akashi District, Quadrangle Series, Scale 1:50,000, Geological Survey of Japan, 90p. (in Japanese with English abstract 5p.)